Deaths in February 1991

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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 1991.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

February 1991[edit]

1[edit]

• Sam Busich, 77, American football player.^[1]
• Carol Dempster, 89, American silent film actress, heart failure.^[2]
• Shiro Kuramata, 56, Japanese interior designer.^[3]
• Jimmy MacDonald, 84, Scottish-American voice actor (Mickey Mouse) and sound effects designer, heart failure.
• Herzl Rosenblum, 87, Lithuanian-born Israeli journalist.
• Oscar Rudolph, 79, American television director, complications from a stroke.
• Phil Watson, 76, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (New York Rangers).^[4]

2[edit]

• Pete Axthelm, 47, American sports journalist, liver failure.^[5]
• Maurice G. Burnside, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1953, 1955–1957).^[6]
• Lorang Christiansen, 74, Norwegian Olympic cyclist (1948, 1952).^[7]
• Jack Daugherty, 60, American musician, complications from heart surgery.
• Alan Green, 79, British politician.
• Natalie Kingston, 85, American actress.^[8]
• Franco Latini, 63, Italian actor and voice actor, stroke.
• Howie Rader, 69, American basketball player.^[9]
• Stanislav Sorokin, 49, Soviet Olympic boxer (1964).^[10]
• Aryness Joy Wickens, 90, American statistician.^[11]

3[edit]

• Harry Ackerman, 78, American television producer (Bewitched, The Flying Nun, Hazel).^[12]
• Walter Brown, 75, American baseball player.^[13]
• Ernst Kalwitzki, 81, German football player.^[14]
• Nancy Kulp, 69, American actress (The Beverly Hillbillies, The Aristocats, The Parent Trap), cancer.^[15]

4[edit]

• Juozas Baltušis, 81, Lithuanian writer.^[16]
• Károly Bartha, 83, Hungarian Olympic swimmer (1924).^[17]
• Johannes Pløger, 68, Danish football player.^[18]
• Harry Lancaster Towe, 92, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1943–1951).
• Eleni Skoura, 94, Greek politician.

5[edit]

• Pedro Arrupe, 83, Spanish Jesuit priest.^[19]
• Lawrence Gowing, 72, English artist, heart attack.^[20]
• Dean Jagger, 87, American actor (Twelve O'Clock High, White Christmas, Mr. Novak), Oscar winner (1950).^[21]
• James L. Knight, 81, American newspaper publisher.^[22]
• Margarethe von Oven, 86, German secretary and 20 July plot accomplice .

6[edit]

• John Paul Elford, 68, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Salvador Luria, 78, Italian-American microbiologist, Nobel Prize recipient (1969), heart attack.^[23]
• Bassett Maguire, 86, American botanist, kidney failure.
• Alex McColl, 96, American baseball player.^[24]
• George McNaughton, 93, Canadian ice hockey player.^[25]
• Danny Thomas, 79, American actor (The Danny Thomas Show, The Jazz Singer, Big City) and philanthropist, Emmy winner (1955), heart attack.^[26]
• María Zambrano, 86, Spanish writer.^[27]

7[edit]

• Otto Friedrich Bollnow, 87, German philosopher.^[28]
• George Detore, 84, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).^[29]
• John War Eagle, 89, American Sioux actor (Tonka, Tomahawk, Westward Ho, the Wagons!).^[30]
• Werner Fuetterer, 84, German actor.^[31]
• John Guise, 76, Papua New Guinean politician, governor-general (1975–1977).
• Don McDougall, 73, American television director (The Virginian, Bonanza, The Dukes of Hazzard).^[32]
• Jean-Paul Mousseau, 64, Canadian artist.^[33]
• John Steinbeck IV, 44, American journalist, complications from spinal surgery.^[34]
• Dick Winslow, 75, American actor (Tom Sawyer, King Creole, The Apple Dumpling Gang), diabetes.
• Amos Yarkoni, 70, Bedouin-Israeli military officer and civil servant, cancer.

8[edit]

• Aris T. Allen, 80, American politician, suicide.
• Hubert M. Blalock, Jr., 64, American sociologist.^[35]
• Miran Bux, 83, Pakistani cricket player.^[36]
• Silvio O. Conte, 69, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1959), prostate cancer.^[37]
• Daphne Jackson, 54, English nuclear physicist, cancer.
• James Jacoby, 57, American bridge player, cancer.
• Casimir Lewy, 71, Polish philosopher.^[38]
• Evan Luard, 64, English politician.
• Aaron Siskind, 87, American photographer, stroke.^[39]

9[edit]

• James Cleveland, 59, American gospel singer, heart failure.^[40]
• John Sloan Dickey, 83, American academic.^[41]
• Walter Klien, 62, Austrian pianist.^[42]
• Daigoro Kondo, 83, Japanese footballer, intracranial hemorrhage.
• Fatma Memik, 87-88, Turkish politician.
• Arkady Migdal, 79, Soviet physicist and member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.^[43]
• Edward H. Schafer, 77, American historian, liver cancer.^[44]
• Cliff Shaw, 68, American programmer.

10[edit]

• William Foley, 59, Australian Roman Catholic archbishop.^[45]
• Rowe Harding, 89, Welsh rugby player.
• Bernard Lee, 55, American civil rights activist, heart failure.
• Marion Roper, 80, American Olympic diver (1932).^[46]
• Marcel Tolkowsky, 91, Belgian diamond cutter.^[47]

11[edit]

• Ricardo Gullón, 82, Spanish writer.^[48]
• Bohumil Kudrna, 70, Czechoslovak Olympic canoeist (1948, 1952).^[49]
• Ruth Landes, 82, American anthropologist.^[50]
• Pete Parker, 95, Canadian radio announcer.

12[edit]

• Wilhelm Brinkmann, 80, German Olympic handball player (1936).^[51]
• Liu Chieh, 83, Taiwanese diplomat, cerebral hemorrhage.^[52]
• Norman Fisher, 74, New Zealand boxer.
• Ruth Morley, 65, Austrian-American costume designer (Superman, Taxi Driver, Tootsie), breast cancer.^[53]
• Roger Patterson, 22, American bassist (Atheist), traffic collision.
• Robert F. Wagner, 80, American politician, mayor of New York City (1954–1965), bladder cancer.^[54]

13[edit]

• Arno Breker, 90, German architect and sculptor.^[55]
• Gunnar Hultgren, 88, Swedish archbishop.
• Flaviano Labò, 64, Italian singer, traffic collision.^[56]
• Ron Pickering, 60, British sports commentator.
• Georg Moritz, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Altenburg, 90, German royal, head of the house of Saxe-Altenburg (since 1955).
• Heinz Willeg, 72, German film producer.

14[edit]

• Alex Clark, 74, American politician, head injury.
• Felix Gilbert, 85, German-American historian.^[57]
• Pafsanias Katsotas, 95, Greek Army general and politician.
• Alfred R. Lindesmith, 85, American sociologist.^[58]
• John A. McCone, 89, American politician, Director of Central Intelligence (1961–1965), cardiac arrest.^[59]
• Kim Slavin, 62, Soviet and Russian painter.
• José Ádem, 69, Mexican mathematician.

15[edit]

• Virginia Mae Brown, 67, American civil servant, heart attack.^[60]
• Alfred Gleisner, 82, German politician.
• David Herlihy, 60, American historian.^[61]
• Birger Malmsten, 70, Swedish actor.^[62]
• Tillie Manton, 80, American football player.^[63]
• George Motola, 71, American record producer.
• Ernest Robert Sears, 80, American agricultural geneticist.
• Ivan Shkadov, 77, Soviet general, traffic accident.
• Earl E. T. Smith, 87, American politician and diplomat.
• István Ströck, 90, Romanian football player.^[64]

16[edit]

• Enrique Bermúdez, 58, Nicaraguan soldier, shot.
• Bob Geddins, 78, American musician, liver cancer.^[65]
• Luis Escobar Kirkpatrick, 82, Spanish actor and noble.^[66]
• Bobby Maples, 48, American football player (Houston Oilers, Denver Broncos, Pittsburgh Steelers), Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Didar Sandhu, 48, Indian folk singer and songwriter.

17[edit]

• Gitta Alpár, 88, Hungarian-American opera singer.^[67]
• Madina Gulgun, 65, Iranian-Soviet poet.
• Louis O. Kelso, 77, American economist.
• Miroslav Macháček, 68, Czechoslovak actor.^[68]
• Jean Palluch, 67, French football player (b.1923).^[69]
• Francis Pearson, 79, British politician and colonial administrator.
• Hans Thimig, 90, Austrian actor and director.^[70]
• Travis Williams, 45, American football player, heart failure.^[71]

18[edit]

• Liu Chi-Sheng, 76, Chinese pilot, intracerebral hemorrhage.
• Francesc de Borja Moll i Casasnovas, 87, Spanish linguist.
• Eugene Fodor, 85, Hungarian-American writer.^[72]
• Dick Hart, 63, American Olympic long-distance runner (1956).^[73]
• Fulke Walwyn, 80, British jockey.
• Zhang Wenjin, 76, Chinese diplomat.^[74]

19[edit]

• Fad Browne, 84, Irish politician.
• Arne Kleven, 91, Danish footballer.^[75]
• Herbert Niemann, 55, German Olympic judoka (1964), suicide.^[76]
• Milton S. Plesset, 83, American physicist.
• Francis D. Rauber, 89, United States Marine Corps Sergeant Major.

20[edit]

• Sir George Clark, 3rd Baronet, 77, Northern Irish politician.
• Isabelle Delorme, 90, Canadian composer.^[77]
• John Fetzer, 89, American sports executive.^[78]
• Eugene Forsey, 86, Canadian politician.^[79]
• Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson, 81, English linguist.^[80]
• George Lennon, 90, Irish-American buddhist and republican leader.

21[edit]

• Dorothy Auchterlonie, 75, English-born Australian poet.^[81]
• John Sherman Cooper, 89, American politician and diplomat, member of the U.S. Senate (1946–1949, 1952–1955, 1956–1973), heart failure.^[82]
• Margot Fonteyn, 71, English ballerina, ovarian cancer.^[83]
• Oscar Christian Gundersen, 82, Norwegian politician.
• Mordechai Ish-Shalom, 90, Israeli politician and labor leader.
• Nutan, 54, Indian actress, breast cancer.
• Frederick J. Pohl, 101, American author.
• Abdurrahman Sharafkandi, 69, Iranian writer.

22[edit]

• Ladislav Fialka, 59, Czechoslovak mime.^[84]
• Eric Hosking, 81, English photographer.
• William Loose, 80, American composer, heart attack.^[85]
• Jimmy Pattison, 82, American baseball player.^[86]
• Atanasie Protopopesco, 90, Romanian football player.

23[edit]

• John Alfred Hannah, 88, American academic.^[87]
• Argeliers León, 72, Cuban composer and musicologist.
• Leo Thomas Maher, 75, American Roman Catholic prelate, brain cancer.
• Gösta Persson, 87, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1924, 1936).^[88]
• William Howard Taft III, 75, American diplomat, prostate cancer.

24[edit]

• Georges Capdeville, 91, French football referee.
• John Charles Daly, 77, American journalist and television personality, cardiac arrest, heart attack.^[89]
• Robert B. Downs, 87, American librarian.^[90]
• George Gobel, 71, American actor and comedian.^[91]
• Shingo Kanemoto, 58, Japanese voice actor, intracerebral hemorrhage.
• Stewart Morris, 81, British Olympic sailor (1948).
• Webb Pierce, 69, American musician, pancreatic cancer.^[92]
• Héctor Rial, 62, Argentine football player.
• Jean Rogers, 74, American actress, surgical complications.^[93]
• Lina Volonghi, 76, Italian actress.
• Hans-Joachim Weise, 78, German Olympic sailor (1936).^[94]

25[edit]

• John Dunning, 74, American film editor (Ben-Hur, Julius Caesar, Dr. Kildare), Oscar winner (1960).
• Sverre Hansen, 91, Norwegian Olympic long jumper (1924).^[95]
• Suleiman Ali Nashnush, 47-48, Libyan basketball player.
• Otto Tibulski, 78, German footballer.^[96]
• André Turp, 65, Canadian singer.

26[edit]

• Bernard W. Burton, 92, American film editor.
• Abraham Charité, 73, Dutch Olympic weightlifter (1948).
• Slim Gaillard, 80, American musician, cancer.^[97]
• Han Lih-wu, 88, Taiwanese diplomat.
• William McMahon, 81, American Olympic long-distance runner (1936).^[98]
• Jimmy Zinn, 96, American baseball player.^[99]

27[edit]

• Owen Dougherty, 61, American sports coach, complications from heart surgery.^[100]
• Florence Gilbert, 87, American silent film actress.^[101]
• Leo Katcher, 79, American reporter, heart attack.^[102]
• Martinho da Costa Lopes, 73, East Timorese religious and political leader.
• Artie Mitchell, 45, American pornographer, shot.^[103]
• Bob Widlar, 53, American electronics engineer, heart attack.

28[edit]

• Reinhard Bendix, 75, German-American sociologist, heart attack.^[104]
• Wassily Hoeffding, 76, Finnish-American statistician.^[105]
• Prince Wenzel of Liechtenstein, 28, Liechtenstein royal.
• Sante Monachesi, 81, Italian painter.^[106]
• Guillermo Ungo, 59, Salvadoran politician.^[107]
• Werner Wägelin, 77, Swiss Olympic cyclist (1936).^[108]

References[edit]

^ "Dougherty, 61, IUP coach, dies". The Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. March 1, 1991. p. 30. Retrieved December 4, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .